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An examination of over 100 Covid-19 studies reveals that many relied on false assumptions that over-estimated the benefits and under-estimated the costs of lockdown. The most recent research has shown that lockdowns have had, at best, a marginal effect on the number of Covid-19 deaths. Generally speaking, the ineffectiveness stemmed from individual changes in behavior: either non-compliance or behavior that mimicked lockdowns. [SNIP] The review covers over 100 different academic studies, along with related Covid-19 data sites. I have sought out studies that (i) dealt with matters of ‘lockdown’ either directly or indirectly, and (ii) were related directly or indirectly...

I have to go the religious exemption route to avoid the jab. Going with the aborted fetal cell arguments works with J&J but Pfizer and Moderna do not use aborted fetal cells but their technology does. It seems to be pretty weak argument to me. Any ideas? Thanks.

On Wednesday, Sweden and Denmark announced that they would stop using Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for younger age groups after numerous reports of rare side effects such as myocarditis. The Swedish Health Agency has stopped using the vaccine for anyone born in 1991 or later after receiving data that shows an increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in youth and young adults who have received the vaccine. Both conditions cause an inflammation of the lining around the heart.

Bay Area health officials are considering dropping indoor mask mandates. On Tuesday, Mayor London Breed said the change is long overdue. But, there's still a lot of hesitation among Bay Area residents, epidemiologists included. Mask mandates have been a moving target throughout the pandemic. In mid-June, when California reopened, the state dropped indoor mask mandates. But when Delta created a new surge, seven Bay Area counties re-issued indoor masking mandates in early August. Now Bay Area health officials are discussing ditching the face coverings once again. "The mask just feels like a safety blanket," said San Francisco resident, Danielle Coller....

A tech and telecom staffer for Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced she is leaving her staff to join Apple, the news coming just hours after the Minnesota Democrat slammed Big Tech for having “literally hired so many people” in Washington, DC. April Jones, the deputy legislative director and counsel for Klobuchar on tech and telecom issues, will be joining Apple as a senior government affairs policy counsel, according to Politico. The announcement came Wednesday, one day after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke in front of the Senate Commerce Committee’s consumer protection subcommittee, blasting her former employer and calling for government regulators...

The Church has always struggled to find good leaders. However, as recently as a hundred years ago, bureaucratic structures did not dominate its life as they do today. What happened? {snip} The Vatican also furthered this revolution, despite already having a centralized bureaucracy and despite the vaunted “collegiality” proclaimed at Vatican II. When Paul VI reorganized the papal Curia in 1967, effective control over other curial departments fell to the Secretariate of State, marking a “turn to the world” in its orientation, downgrading the importance of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Paul VI also allowed bishops to...

@KelleyAshbyPaul A mob held us hostage for ten minutes, spitting on and threatening to kill us. No charges! Fake anthrax and death threats sent to our home. No charges! Now just learned the person who called Rand’s Senate office threatening to shoot us will not be charged. I’m exhausted and angry On May 28, a Republican-hating woman called Rand’s DC Senate office threatening to “shoot you all” to our staff member. She was never charged. Yet if you dare express indignation at a school board meeting about CRT or forced masks, the Biden DOJ and FBI say you’re a criminal.

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A group of prominent experts on COVID-19 is pushing President Joe Biden to significantly scale back his plan to provide booster shots for every vaccinated American. The experts, some of whom advised the president during the transition, told Biden and some of his top medical experts during a September 27 conference call that the data currently available does not justify using booster shots to combat breakthrough COVID infections among the vaccinated, according to Politico. The outside experts argued that the boosters should be restricted to only those at high risk from COVID-19. Biden was joined on the call along with...

Windows 11 started to roll out, but is your laptop ready for the new OS? Find out using the PC Health Check app WhyNotWin11 and other options. _______________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft will phase out Windows 10 support over the next few years, so it's important to make sure your device supports Windows 11. Sarah Tew/CNET Windows 11 arrived Tuesday (here's our full Windows 11 review) and the big question on a lot of PC users' minds since Microsoft unveiled its first major operating system upgrade in six years is, will my computer be compatible? There's been some confusion about device compatibility since...

I’ve had quite a few pints in my life. Be it light or dark, bitter or sweet, a fizzy 5 percent or a starker 9 percent, beer has always been my favourite drink. So when I heard that there are places in the world where you can not only drink beer but bathe in it, my interest was piqued. One of them, Belgium’s first beer spa, just opened in the heart of the capital, and I couldn’t miss the opportunity to try it. ADVERTISEMENT Founders Bart De Brabanter and Louis Raes decided to devote themselves to this new passion project...

FACEBOOK, Instagram and WhatsApp went down for seven hours in a major global outage yesterday – but why? Here's a quick guide on what actually happened to take three of the world's biggest websites and apps offline. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/16328655/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-crashed/ In 2021, it's easy to wonder how huge chunks of the internet can go offline. But it's surprisingly easy for outages to happen – due to how the internet works. World wide web Every website – including Facebook – exists on a computer server somewhere. So when you want to log on to Facebook.com, you have to connect to one of Facebook's...

With John Hinckley's bullet still lodged in his chest, President Ronald Reagan was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, which is about nine minutes from the Hilton hotel where he'd been shot. One of the surgeons who met him there was Dr. Benjamin Aaron, then chief of cardiothoracic surgery at GWU. Aaron would go on to remove what turned out to be an explosive "Devastator" bullet from the president -- though they didn't know that at the time.

Bay Area health officials on Thursday are expected to announce plans for an eventual end to the region’s indoor masking mandate.Health officials are finalizing criteria in which counties would be required to meet in order to lift the restrictions. Those criteria are likely to include case rates, vaccination rates and hospitalizations, according to officials.“We have been discussing this among the health officers in the region, and our intention and our plan is to develop a set of metrics we all share that are common across the region as to when to lift indoor masking,” Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr....

Source: Townhall Media/Julio RosasIt is long overdue that immigration (legal and illegal) into the United States be made fair, equitable and inclusive to all. This is what Wokeism is all about, right? Of the nearly 8 billion people on Earth, the population breaks out into five broad racial categories: Asian 54%, Black 15%, White 15%, Hispanic 8%, Middle Eastern 8%. In order to promote diversity, as well as be fair, equitable and inclusive to all, shouldn’t U.S. immigration policy be directly aligned with these global racial percentages? This is certainly not being done today — and, astonishingly, a massive and...

India may be staring at electricity shortages in the coming months because coal stocks at most of its power plants have dropped to critically low levels. As many as 63 of the 135 coal-fired power plants in Asia's third largest economy have two days — or less — of coal supplies, India's Central Electricity Authority (CEA) said in a report on Tuesday. Coal stocks at 17 of them have been run down to zero, it added. In total, 75 plants are running with five days worth of coal or less Coal accounts for almost 70% of the country's electricity generation.

TALIBAN thugs have hung the corpses of alleged criminals from diggers in shocking new photos from Afghanistan According to deputy governor Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Muhajir, the three men were killed after entering a man's home to rob him. In the graphic images shared on social media, the corpses are shown hoisted into the air and hanging by their necks in Obe district in Herat province. Onlookers were seen taking photos of the men as their bodies were displayed in public. Tuesday's gruesome display is another example of the kind of practices that feed international concern that the Taliban have returned...

A Texas high school was placed on lockdown after three people were shot on campus Wednesday morning, according to a report. The shooting occurred around 9:30 a.m. at Timberview High School in Arlington. The three victims were rushed to the hospital, police sources told the news station Fox4. No fatalities have been reported.

Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory. Where did Covid-19 come from? The answer can be found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself. Based on experience with SARS-1 in 2003 and MERS in 2012, we know that many people are infected by a host animal long before a coronavirus mutates to the point where it can jump from human to human. An extensive data set from late 2019—more than 9,000 hospital samples—is available of people exhibiting flulike (thus Covid-like) symptoms in China’s Hubei and Shaanxi provinces before the epidemic started. Based on SARS-1 and MERS, the natural...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his government's mandatory vaccine policy today--a mandate that will require public servants to get their shots by month's end or be forced unto an unpaid leave of absence. All would-be travellers must also be fully vaccinated by Oct. 30 before boarding planes, trains or marine vessels. To bolster stalled vaccination rates, the federal government will require all of its employees in the "core public administration" and the RCMP to be fully vaccinated or to apply for a medical or religious exemption by the end of the month. Federal contractors, like cleaning staff, must also be...